TEHRAN – Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed near Tehran’sImam Khomeini International Airport minutes after takeoff on 8 January.
Two missiles were fired at the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737that was shot down on 8 January by the Iranian armed forces, according to apreliminary investigation report by the Iranian Civil Aviation Organisation(CAO).
“Investigators… discovered that two Tor-M1 missiles… were fired at theaircraft,” report said, adding an investigation was ongoing to assess thebearing their impact had on the accident.
On Sunday, the head of Iran’s civil aviation investigative authority,Hassan Rezaeifar, said that Iran was independently decoding the flight datarecorders from the downed Ukrainian plane and that Tehran has not yetdecided whether the black boxes would be sent abroad
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Ukraine International Airlines’ Kiev-bound Boeing 737-800 crashed on 8January, soon after departing from Iran’s Imam Khomeini Airport. Citizensof Iran, Canada, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Germany, Sweden and the UnitedKingdom were among the 176 passengers and crew who perished.
The Iranian military has admitted to unintentionally shooting down theUkrainian plane, having confused it with a hostile cruise missile inanticipation of US retaliation to Iran’s massive attack against Iraqi baseshousing US military personnel. The Iranian leadership expressed deep regretover the developments, describing the tragedy as an “unforgivablemistake.”- Sputnik
